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   skirt and flashes her panties on the air.  When Michiko returns to   
   find that Keiko has been given her spot permanently and she has been   
   reassigned to the 6 AM weather report, the battle begins.  A wicked   
   parody of the cutthroat broadcast industry with not that much actual   
   sex, but so much of everything else that that isn't much of an issue.   
   [Available from Critical Mass.]   
      
      WICKED CITY:  see SUPERNATURAL BEAST CITY   
      
      WORDS WORTH: (eps 1&2 reviewed)  A proper fantasy anime plot as good   
   as many mainstream titles - Light kingdom and dark kingdom (below   
   ground) are at war, people living down below don't even know about the   
   sky, etc.  Story focuses on a prince who has dreams of a blue sky he's   
   never seen.  Unlike most films, war is depicted as it happens in real   
   life to the extent that captors gleefully rape their prisoners etc.  So   
   plenty of sex, both consensual and non-consensual, inc. bestiality   
   thanks to the mutant creatures such as horse-men, and some violence.   
      
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   Subject: Related Book Reviews   
      
      
   THE EROTIC ANIME MOVIE GUIDE   
      When considering erotic anime good information is both needed   
   (there's no shortage of stuff to avoid) and hard to come by (since   
   many sources won't cover the domain).  Thus the EROTIC ANIME MOVIE   
   GUIDE, by Helen Mc Carthy & Johnathan Clements (ISBN:1-185286-946-1)   
   seemed like a promising possibility.  Even though, being sold at a   
   comic specialty store, it was expensive and shrink-wrapped.   
      Which is a shame, because the contents are not quite what you might   
   expect.  Especially given that it shares the style, and one of the   
   authors, from the more useful ANIME MOVIE GUIDE.  The first thing is   
   that about 2/3 of this slim volume (190 pages) is actually filled with   
   'film studies' essays on various elements of erotic anime.  While some   
   of these are interesting to serious students of anime history,   
   although there are some doubtful arguments, they're not actually much   
   use for understanding erotic anime.  The subjects are old news and   
   well known by most anime fans (U-jin, Go Nagai, OVERFIEND etc.).   
      Even more disappointing is the list of 200 reviews provided.  A lot   
   of these have only a marginal erotic content, or are provided to back   
   up arguments made in the essays.  Thus titles such as DIRTY PAIR,   
   GUNBUSTER, DOREAMON and OH MY GODDESS have reviews, despite requiring   
   a lot of imagination to see these as 'erotic anime'.  And there are   
   lots more titles that simply don't belong in this book.  The remaining   
   reviews tend to be well known, commercially released, titles that are   
   largely synopsis rather than commentary.   
      While this is an interesting book, especially to someone interested   
   in the history and development of erotic anime, it is largely useless   
   as a guide to the genre.  Those planning a purchase should definitely   
   find a copy to look through first.   
      
   --   
   Rob Kelk  robkelk -at- jksrv -dot- com   
     "I'm *not* a kid!  Nyyyeaaah!"  - Skuld (in "Oh My Goddess!" OAV #3)   
   "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of   
    childishness and the desire to be very grown-up."    - C.S. Lewis, 1947   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)